The city that ate itself : Butte, Montana and its expanding Berkeley Pit /

"Open-pit mining was not just a new way to mine, but a new way to live. After the 1920s, hard-rock mines across the American West transitioned from underground operations to large open-pit holes. Butte, Montana, a well-known underground mining center, experienced this switch when the Anaconda C...

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Main Author: Leech, Brian James (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Reno, Nevada : University of Nevada Press, [2018]
Series:Mining and society series.
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